During monsoon season in the Southwest the sky constantly puts on a show.
In fact lightning was responsible for the Warm Fire mid-June 2006 where these photos were taken.
Though I saw no lightning.
I did run into rain.
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Much of the rim is not easily accessible but worth walking around the trees for a sunset through the North Rim forest.
Yet the trees frame the sky and canyon.
Tip toeing through the golden grasses to observe the golden view.
Aspen glow in the last light.
While Ponderosa deepens into shadow.
The sky takes on the colors of the canyon walls in the fading light.
Me and the moon, watching the show.
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Depending on where you’re from and what language is spoken you may know Wotan as the Norse god Odin who ruled from Valhalla.
But here on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park early geologist Clarence Dutton, who named many of the landmarks in the canyon, called this Wotans Throne seen from Cape Royal at the end of the Walhalla Plateau.
His wife, Freya, has a rock castle nearby which was buried in fog.
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